5/19 Columbia MD

10-4/en route

No testing the waters tonight. Lu took the stage with both guns blazing.

After sets by Justin Jones and the Drive-By Truckers, Lu swaggered onto stage dressed all in black with an uber-hip semi-asymmetric platinum do with long bangs covering her right eye.

1. Out Of Touch – “We’re here to rock and roll. It’s been a long time since we’ve had this formation of the band.”
2. Real Live Bleeding Fingers
3. Essence – “Stand up and shake your booty in honor of summer”. Lu encouraged everyone to get up out of their seats and come down and dance in front of the stage. Many happily obliged.
4. Come On
5. Changed The Locks
6. Born To Be Loved
7. Ain’t My Cross To Bear
8. Righteously
9. Atonement
10. Joy
11. Honey Bee – “Love, Peace, & Revolution. Power to the People”

Encore:
12. Get Right With God (with the Drive-By Truckers joining her on stage)

Lu was a bad-ass rock goddess, and Doug was Doug. Sparks were flying off Butch’s drums, and David was spot on. It was a condensed show, but perfection. I hope this band family stays together for a long, long time. 🙂

Wow, sounds like the set was smokin’. wish I coulda been there.

Well, there was nothing subtle about this setlist, was there? If a “commodore” might be allowed to make a few small corrections to west words’ report, despite Lu saying early in the set “we’re glad to share the stage with the Drive By Truckers,” that was not them out there again for “Get Right with God.” I suspect they had long fled the premises. The only two she named and thanked after the song were Justin Jones and Dave Phenicie (sp?), formerly of Stonehoney and also accompaniest to the likes of Anne McCue and Angela Easterling. People of all age groups and genders were moving about the stage, though. Lu’s quasi-Southern rock set fit a co-bill with the Truckers (each was listed as precisely 70 minutes, and Lu finished right at the 11 p.m. curfew); it was especially nice to get “Atonement,” and Lu has never done the Allman cover with quite as much spirit as Saturday night, to my hearing.

And I’m afraid it was the late DONNA Summer, not the season, that Lu commemorated a couple of songs in. Still, the celebratory spirit existed.

Ha! Stog, we should have compared notes before I went to press. DBT’s loudness must have impaired my already questionable hearing. GREAT show regardless. thx! 😀

Onward to meet up with Mr. Stog to see Mr. Prophet, who personally invited Mr. Stog, to tonight’s show. Life is good. 🙂